Kev's Snack Reviews

Another quick edition of Spotted In Shops today, this time for something always worthy of shouting about: New Ben & Jerry's flavours! It seems they've been busy again and released two new flavours onto the U.K market: Birthday Cake, containing Vanilla Cake Batter Ice Cream with Pink Frosting, Strawberry Swirls and Cake Pieces. It comes in lovely packaging that enables you to gift the tub to someone on their birthday - such a nice touch! I would actually do this if it wouldn't melt in the post! Currently available at Sainsbury's for £4. As if that wasn't exciting enough they've only gone and bloomin' launched another variety, this time in their "Topped" range called Pretzel Palooza. This one contains Vanilla malt ice cream with a chocolatey hazelnut swirl (11%), chocolatey covered pretzel chunks (7%), chocolatey chunks (2%) and chocolatey topping (9%), and it's currently £3 in Sainsbury's. What are you waiting for? Get yourself down ...

Last week I reviewed the new Cadbury Caramel Chocolate spread and it was pretty awesome, so once I'd finished it off I thought why not try this Crunchie variety too. Like the Caramel version it cost £2.25 which isn't too cheap, but it's a special spread so I'll forgive them. This one is a milk chocolate spread with Crunchie bits mixed in. They only seem to be available at Tesco currently but I'm sure other supermarkets will have them in soon enough. Opening the lid I got a strong waft of honeycomb and chocolate, it definitely smelled very...honeycomb-ey! Scooping some out, the Crunchie bits are just about visible mixed in with the spread.  There was only one way to do this...spoon straight into mouth!  Unlike the Caramel spread, this one has a more purer chocolate flavour. There's a lot of Crunchie bits crammed in, they're very crunchy as you'd expect and with a strong honeycomb flavour, making this a very sweet but moreish spread. I tried add...

A few more new products I've seen whilst out shopping recently... Cadbury Crunchie Minis Ice Creams Contains Crunchie flavour ice cream with a Crunchie chocolate coating - available at Asda and other supermarkets. Ritz Breaks Rosemary & Olive Oil New Ritz crackers in a handy "breaks" format. Available at Asda. Müller Corner Apple & Pear - Voted by You New "voted by you" apple & pear flavour Müller Corner. Available at Asda. Müller Corner Dessert Inspired Banoffee Pie Yogurt And a "dessert inspired" banoffee pie Müller Corner - because you can never have enough banoffee pie variations! Also at Asda. Müller Corner Greek Style Mango & Passionfruit Completing the trio of new Müller Corners is this Greek Style Mango & Passionfruit flavour. Also at Asda. Nestlé Ski Smooth Coconut Yogurt - Limited Edition Limited edition low fat Ski coconut flavour yogurts, also at Asda. Nestlé Aero Orange & Choc Bubbly M...